ABSTRACT
Sir Henry Neville died in 1615 and life went on. Around 1619 his widowremarried George Carleton, Bishop of Chichester (c.1557-1628). Carleton had been at Oxford at the same time as Neville, and had also been a student of Sir Henry Savile. Although originally at St Edmund’s Hall, in 1580 he was admitted to Merton College while Neville was still a student there.1 Carleton was a friend and admirer of Neville and, in 1603, wrote a Latin work praising Neville, Heroici Characteres. Carleton’s first clerical position had been as Vicar of Mayfield, Sussex, from 1589 to 1605.2 Like Neville, he had suffered from being passed over for preferment until he was made Bishop of Llandaff, in Wales, in 1617 and Bishop of Chichester in 1619. He was a noted religious writer and theologian.3 It is impossible to say what he really knew of his wife’s first husband’s secret life as an author, and although it is doubtful whether he took an interest in the theatre, his friends wrote of him as a merry, witty gentleman who seemed to be quite different in real life from the strictly Puritanical image he portrayed in his religious tracts.
